For today's free and easy music producers, the knotty business of music theory has always had a slight whiff of the uncool ...

Borrowed chords—sometimes called “modal interchange”—are one of the most subtle yet powerful tools in a composer's harmonic arsenal. The technique involves extracting a harmonic entity—a chord, bass ...

A normal C major chord is C-E-G, but you can easily change it to E-G-C, called the 'first inversion', or G-C-E, the 'second inversion' - the bass note has changed, but it's still the same chord, with ...